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The festival again changed names in 2005, becoming the Detroit International Jazz Festival after Ford Motor Company removed its sponsorship. In January 2006 Gretchen Valade, Chairman of Mack Avenue Records founded the Detroit International Jazz Festival Foundation, which took over production and management of the festival. [ 1 ]
Live at the Detroit Jazz Festival is a collaborative live album by Wayne Shorter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Esperanza Spalding, and Leo Genovese. [3] Candid released the album on 9 September 2022. [ 4 ] It is also the final recording for Shorter prior to his death in 2023.
1820: Madame Delinsky, the female half of a magic act, was accidentally shot and killed while performing the "bullet catch" trick. One of the six marksmen had mistakenly loaded his rifle with a live bullet. 1829: Sam Patch, an American daredevil, died in Rochester, New York, during a jump into the High Falls of the Genesee River. He had ...
Jean DuShon (born Anna Jean Harris, later Atwell, August 16, 1935 – July 19, 2019) was an African American jazz and R&B singer, and stage actor. She was best known for her recordings in the 1960s, including the first released recording of the song "For Once in My Life" in 1966, although many had not heard her version, and assumed the original recording was by Stevie Wonder.
This group recorded in 1986 and continued performing regularly until his death. [3] Heard died of a heart attack at the age of 71 in Royal Oak, Michigan. [3] His legacy is honored with the yearly J.C. Heard JazzWeek@Wayne, held on the campus of Wayne State University, as part of the Detroit Jazz Festival. [6]
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Barbara Jean Spillman (May 12, 1927 – October 20, 2024), known professionally as Barbara Dane, was an American folk, blues, and jazz singer, guitarist, record producer, and political activist. She co-founded Paredon Records with Irwin Silber. "Bessie Smith in stereo," wrote jazz critic Leonard Feather of Dane in the late 1950s.